So here are the rules summarised by me.
1) Ads only allowed in national forums.
Good rule.
2)Only allowed in a specific thread.
Good rule.
3) The thread can only be opened by a NT manager.
Good rule.
4) One ad per week.
Horrible rule. If someone jumps on and advertises a $3k role player for sale then for the next seven days no more ads are allowed and we can't promote that once in season $7k HoF guy. As long as they are all in the one thread what is the problem? Anyone that isn't interested can just ignore the entire thread. What is the difference between ignoring a thread with 14 posts for a season or one with 140 posts?
5) Anyone can post in the thread.
Good rule.
6) Users of other countries can only announce local players.
Debatable. In Australia we have an "overseas adoption" thread and I know a lot of successful NT managers in the past advertised players in their home country, some of them being very high profile players. I understand we don't want hundreds of threads everywhere advertising players so there has to be some sort of limit. Perhaps each nation should also have in its national forums just one thread for "overseas adoption". This one I agree is tricky.
7) Other posts may be made discussing the players.
Good rule.
8) The national coaches (and only them) can announce players sold in the official thread for each selection. I would like a better translation of this but I fear it means only National Coaches can announce players for sale.
Bad rule.
That is poor as many nations have scouts that take care of these duties or just helpful friends that point out players from time to time. Being a NT coach is a big job spreading the workload out both helps the coach and allows others to have some fun contributing to the team. Even in Australia from time to time an amazing 18 year old on a team soon to go bot is identified by a random community member. Why stop this?
9) NT coaches can advise about players coming up for sale.
Good rule.
10) Anyone can ask for help in training a player but not try to solicit bids.
Good rule.
So I think these rules are really good overall but I would ask for a little tweaking. My opinion is within the one thread who cares how many posts there are and who does them? What is annoying is dozens of random threads, these rules will fix that which is great.
I would love to hear people's opinions about advertising foreign NT players/prospects in your home forums as we frequently do in Australia. In our "overseas odoption" thread this season I think we have had ads for players from South Aftica, Wales, Scotland, Bolivia and Barbados. I may have forgotten one. What to do think?
Last edited by yodabig at 7/5/2012 7:11:52 PM